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14:30 - 15:30
Contributed Paper Session
Room: JENK
Chair:
Piet DAAS, Statistics Netherlands, Netherlands, (Email)
Discussant:
Christophe Demunter, European Commission - EUROSTAT, Luxembourg, (Email)
Mobile device tracking and transportation mode detection.
Yvonne Gootzen, (Email), Marco Puts, (Email)
Statistics Netherlands, Heerlen
In cooperation with a Dutch telecom provider, Statistics Netherlands has been developing a model for the tracking of mobile devices. Using multiple observations of the device of an employee, a probability distribution of the traveled path can be computed. This article serves as a proof of concept for the proposed methods. The available data contains records of connections between antennas and the device. A separate data source contains properties of all antennas in the network. A signalling strength model translates the properties of each antenna into a probability distribution of the position of a device in a 100m by 100m grid cell. A Markov Chain Monte Carlo model uses these probability distributions as input in the form of observations. The proposed approach does not only result in an estimated travel path of the device, it also provides the estimation of transportation mode for each time step.


Reference:
CPS01-002
Session:
Mobile Phone Data
Presenter/s:
Yvonne Gootzen
Presentation type:
Oral presentation
Room:
JENK
Chair:
Piet DAAS, Statistics Netherlands, Netherlands, (Email)
Date:
Tuesday, 12 March
Time:
14:30 - 15:30
Session times:
14:30 - 15:30